--- title: Michael Jackson Ghost at Fan Event description: Please note: Ghosts don't exist canonical: https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-16T12:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:42.384Z og:title: "Ghost of Michael Jackson" Appears at Fan Event og:description: Please note: Ghosts don't exist og:url: https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "Ghost of Michael Jackson" Appears at Fan Event twitter:description: Please note: Ghosts don't exist twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # "Ghost of Michael Jackson" Appears at Fan Event by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 16, 2014 12:00 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 16, 2014 12:00 PM UTC Despite having passed away in 2009, Michael Jackson has been making a lot of appearances lately. Not only did the King of Pop appear in a new music video with Justin Timberlake, but some fans also think he popped by a “Michael Jackson Live” tribute show in Bromley, England last week. --- > “” --- Reece Saava, a 14-year-old fan of the singer, snapped a photo of a Michael Jackson lookalike as he signed autographs. A few days later the young fan got a big surprise when he studied the photos more closely. He told [News Shopper:](http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11210156.UPDATE%5F%5FBoy%5Fwho%5Ftook%5Fphoto%5Fof%5Fghost%5Fof%5FMichael%5FJackson%5Fspeaks%5Fout/) --- > “” --- In the picture, what appears to be a ghostly image of Jackson’s face — apparently wearing sunglasses in the afterlife— floats over the impersonator’s head. If the word of a 14-year old isn’t enough for you, his mother swears it’s real. “The image is so clear. I was there and I can adamantly say that there were no mirrors, no trickery, nothing like that at all,” she told [News Shopper](http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11210156.UPDATE%5F%5FBoy%5Fwho%5Ftook%5Fphoto%5Fof%5Fghost%5Fof%5FMichael%5FJackson%5Fspeaks%5Fout/). Fans of the King of Pop are getting used to this sort of thing, though. A Google search reveals that not only was MJ spotted on [Larry King Live](http://gawker.com/5308963/cnn-solves-the-mystery-of-michael-jacksons-ghost) back in 2009 (that turned out to be just the shadow of a CNN crew member), but [he also showed up](http://www.examiner.com/article/michael-jackson-s-ghost-appears-again-at-memorial-service-video) at his own memorial service, was seen [at his Las Vegas tribute show](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cirque-du-soleil-michael-jacksons-2019365), and even haunted the trial of [Dr. Conrad Murray](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/michael-jackson-ghost-court-dr-murray-innocent-article-1.1373550). It should come as no surprise that he would pierce the veil separating life and death to help promote his new album, _XSCAPE_, which is [streaming on Spotify in full](https://play.spotify.com/album/7pomP86PUhoJpY3fsC0WDQ). \[Via [Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629264/Is-ghost-Michael-Jackson-Teenage-fan-snaps-photo-Jacko-impersonator-amazed-apparition-real-thing-appear-hover-head.html)\] **MORE**: [LISTEN: Michael Jackson Track ‘Chicago’ Released](http://time.com/89066/listen-michael-jackson-track-chicago-released/) **MORE**: [Justin Timberlake Pays Tribute to Michael Jackson in “Love Never Felt So Good” Video: Watch](http://time.com/99169/michael-jackson-justin-timberlake-love-never-felt-so-good-video/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/"},"headline":"\"Ghost of Michael Jackson\" Appears at Fan Event","datePublished":"2014-05-16T12:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:42.384Z","description":"Please note: Ghosts don't exist","url":"https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","michael jackson"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/101127/ghost-of-michael-jackson-appears-at-fan-event/","name":"\"Ghost of Michael Jackson\" Appears at Fan Event"}}]}] ```